On Friday in Signposts, my colleague Peter at Adaptive Path announced my new-but-mighty blog to the AP community. It was positioned as “the musings of a scarily synthetic thinker.” I’m either flattered or not. I choose to be flattered. Thanks, Peter! Visit Peter at peterme.com. [Note: earlier version of the post mentioned Dan, who has a nifty [...]
Entries from March 19th, 2007
Lord give me an open mind and a crowbar
March 19th, 2007 · No Comments · random thoughts
Hmmm. I’m in a quandary. I received a galley copy of The Cult of the Amateur from a friend who attended the TED conference, and my open mind is in question. The book is a screed of Web 2.0 and the values it promotes (provokes?) including: participatory online culture, social networking, self-published contribution to bodies [...]
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The Um Tote
March 14th, 2007 · No Comments · neat things
Original image on flickr, uploaded by kateruttr. Amanda has the most amazing bag. It’s one piece of felt with 2 zippers that run alongside the entire edge. When zipped, it makes this offkilter yet lithesomely symmetrical purse. When unzipped, it’s totally flat. It’s called the Um Tote, and you can get it at Branch. There is [...]
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I just wrote a great blog post.
March 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · random thoughts
And then my flickr uploader reloaded the page and when I went back…poof. It was gone. Damn it.
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Catoms and You
March 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · neat things
This came in from Indi…who knows the power of making reallyreally small atoms into bigbig ideas… 3D You http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=103598 (02/07) Vol. 20, No. 2, P. 26; Researchers at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University are working to bridge the chasm between science fiction and science fact with the development of “dynamic physical renderings,” or 3D holograms [...]
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Instructions
March 6th, 2007 · No Comments · random thoughts
 Instructions Originally uploaded by feralbeagle. I’m always compelled to insert my head into the towel loop. Sometimes I wonder how these things get through the many twisty paths of approval.
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crafty night
March 6th, 2007 · No Comments · friends & family, random thoughts
It’s amazing what a night of conversation, craft and wine will do for you: Give you rules of speed scrabble Help you figure out whether to rent or buy Get you great luggage tags Identify the best place to consistently order butter fish Provide a definition of strip charts Display beautiful cards Bust a gut with [...]
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Written on the hand
March 4th, 2007 · No Comments · woth
 woth_2007-01 The backstory is too long on this one. But for kicks, here is what I felt strongly enough about to write on my hand: “So, you have a hot, smart woman that wants to engage with you emotionally, and you just can’t bring it…so stop peeing down your leg and get with the [...]
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from the sketchbook : mapping stories
March 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · sketchbook
Mapping Cloud Atlas Some books just have a visual structure to the flow. When I read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, the interwindings of the plotlines and the step-structure of the story arc were compelling. Compelling enough to claw at my brain until I could see it visually. Hence the map. [warning: larger image may [...]
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Psychonaut, my new word
March 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · wordlings, woth
   Psychonaut Ryan introduced me to this lovely word. I don’t think the meaning was what I originally thought, but that’s fine. I kinda like mis-using terms anyway. One of my sisters is mildly (and hilariously) psycho (I mean that in the nicest sense of the word) and is often in orbit. I may try [...]
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